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GoGeTa006:
I bought a PCIe to IDE card and I cant get it to work!
I looked around and found some drivers.
I used to get 2 "unknown devices" in the device manger but then I installed the drivers and now I only get 1. but I dont see the hard drives anywhere!
I went into the BIOS setup and on the "hard drive boot priority" option I saw the 2 hard drives that are connected via the PCIe card.
Also after the the bios theres a "raid controler setup" and I wen there and theres a "create a raid drive" (i dont know wtf that is)
but anyways I created 1 163 GB drive out of the 2 hard drives (160 + 80 GB) I dont know why it wont let me create 2 raid drives or whatever.
anyways. I cant seem to find them anywhere in windows (windows 7) and I was wondering if anyone can help me
thnkz.
http://cgi.ebay.com/PCIe-PCI-express-to-1-IDE-2-SATA-ports-card-adapter_W0QQitemZ320459580950QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4a9ce12616
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Ok Check this out!:
http://img152.imageshack.us/i/capturea.png/
Mcgreag:
Open "Computer Management", in windows 7 just type it in the search bar on the start menu.
In there select Storage->Disk Management.
This should give you a real view on what drive you have and how they are partitioned etc. It also allows you to partition/format/activate etc.
kostya:
Yes, if you set the two drives in a RAID, you will only see one drive. That is the point of a RAID (a redundant array of inexpensive disks). It allows you to have a single logical drive on multiple physical disks by alternating which drive a piece of data is written to (RAID 0), having one drive act as a mirror of the other (RAID 1), or mix thereof.
If you want to know more about RAIDs, the Wikipedia article explains it very well though is a bit too technical.
kureshii:
If you "dont know wtf [a raid drive] is", how about finding out what it is first before proceeding? Information is just a google away.
Maybe then we can skip the simpler questions that have been answered time and again, and move on to actual issues.
GoGeTa006:
--- Quote from: kureshii on December 14, 2009, 04:02:10 AM ---If you "dont know wtf [a raid drive] is", how about finding out what it is first before proceeding? Information is just a google away.
Maybe then we can skip the simpler questions that have been answered time and again, and move on to actual issues.
--- End quote ---
Done!
thanks for those links. specially that one kureshi, pretty simple language used there.
Question:
- If my Hard drives are already around 80% full, how can I treat them as a RAID drive?
they arent mirros of each other
they arent "split pieces" of data in each.
Cause i have some REALLY important data on one of them and if RAIDING them is going to reformat em then I better back off.
also, as I was reading, theres no way to have them like separate? cause say they are 2 hard drives 160GB and 80 GB. I could only get up to 163 GB RAID disk. (that also scared me for any data loss)
and thank you again for educating me.
--- Quote from: Mcgreag on December 13, 2009, 08:05:59 PM ---Open "Computer Management", in windows 7 just type it in the search bar on the start menu.
In there select Storage->Disk Management.
This should give you a real view on what drive you have and how they are partitioned etc. It also allows you to partition/format/activate etc.
--- End quote ---
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http://img683.imageshack.us/i/capturemz.jpg/
done!
It finds the 2 hard drives as "Unallocated"
how do I allocate them?
cause If I right click I get:
new simple disk
new spanned disk
new stripped disk
and the "New" part is what scares me (since I already have precious data in those HD)
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